Files Hidden by Virus. How to Unhide Them?

The Problem

My girlfriend was panicked when she found out her Final Year Project files were missing from her thumb drive. She thought the files were already gone by a virus attack or were accidentally deleted by her friends.

After I did some analysis, I found out the files are still there but a virus had modified the file properties to ‘Hidden’ and hide all files in the thumb drive.

Although she tried to “Show Hidden Files” but the virus does not allow her to view them. Luckily, she has a very intelligent and clever boyfriend who guides her on how to overcome this problem.

The Solution

1. Insert the thumb drive to an empty USB slot. Take note the drive letter. For an example, F:.

5. Open the thumb drive and you should see the files that were hidden by the virus.

Conclusion

Hopefully with this guide she can help her friends to solve the same problem. And yes, I also hope this guide will solve your files hidden by virus problem too. BTW believe me, university is the best place for virus to spread!

PS: All folders in your thumb drive become shorcut? I got the solution here…

PPS: If your PC still having problem, you can either scan your PC with antivirus or repair it to speed up by using Registry Easy.

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Fauzi is the CEO and founder of CypherFS Network - a Malaysian Internet marketing company that have six blogs under his network. Other than blogging, he also manage a web hosting business at Elfbytes Web Hosting.